Regardless of whether Donald Trump wins or loses the 2016 Presidential election, the following will be true: * Those who support Trump have proven to be the most gullible citizens of the United States, the sort of folks who can fall for the simplest of scams. To invoke a famous Washington Post controversy, they may […]
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Our Future is Not in Paul Ryan’s Hands
But we’ll still get plenty of drama.
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Deplorable Behavior
It’s not going to happen Wednesday, either. Joe Romm of Climate Progress noted last week that if Anderson Cooper and Martha Raddatz failed to introduce a specific question about climate change at the Clinton-Trump II debate, the question would never be brought up in Clinton-Trump III: We’ve had two debates where the moderators ignored the […]
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Paul Ryan’s Speakership Will End
If the GOP drama isn’t bad enough, he’s not going to want to work with President Clinton.
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In the Court of Public Opinion
Sometimes you can just tell when an effort is doomed. Such is the case with a peculiar proceeding in Oregon this past week, where an effort to get the federal courts to do with the Obama administration allegedly will not is guaranteed to down in flames–the height of irony, as the court case in question […]
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Riders on the Storm
In late-December, and again in late-June, I noted that if Paul Ryan’s worst nightmare comes true, and Democrats regain control of the House and Senate on November 8 thanks to Donald Trump’s hot mess of a presidential campaign, there will be a full-court press by progressives and climate activists to take care of the biggest […]
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A Segregated Selfie
Am I the only person who thinks House Speaker Paul Ryan’s whites-only intern photo was just slightly more disturbing than Iowa imbecile Steve King’s statement supporting supremacy? I expect boorish, bigoted behavior from Rep. King, who once infamously declared that undocumented immigrants have “calves the size of cantaloupes” as a result of their alleged devotion […]
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Quick Takes: What a Publicity Stunt Looks Like
* Speaker Paul Ryan called the Democratic House sit-in a “publicity stunt.” One can only assume that he forgot what one of those actually looks like. For those who might have missed it, that is a picture of Paul Ryan washing clean dishes at a soup kitchen. * Here is the news out of Baltimore […]
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Speaker Paul Ryan Goes “Post-Truth” on a Health Care Plan
There’s nothing on costs and nothing on what it would mean for current Obamacare beneficiaries.
